This Friday, Colombo uni’s lecture halls go still for Prasanna Vithanage’s Silence in the Courts. If you’re more in the mood for tussle than tranquility, discuss a new age of sexism at Lakmahal. MusicMatters trivia from 7, and a drag show in Mount for those a tad more festive. Akurugraphy at the Bawa Trust dissects Sri Lankan typefaces.
Come Saturday, the punners at Reid Lit Chats unshackle Jayadeva Uyangoda’s prison poetry, Dileepa Abeysekara chats about translating Shehan Karunatillaka and Neluka Silva discusses Richard de Zoysa’s verse. Channel that poetry, and kamikaze your self-doubt, by creating your own song at Nidhas. A walk of women’s memory; also watch them stride across the silver screen. MagicBoxMixup gets Octopussy’s tentacles in a twist.
Last chances and lost causes this Sunday. “Of Prophetic Dreams” closes at Curado, so catch the exhibition before it's gone. Elsewhere, an all-day rave promises eighteen DJs and presumably zero prophetic dreams of your own come Monday morning. ‘Eclectic’ workshops: expressive art and emotions, diamond painting, sound healing with gongs and Tibetan bowls — take your pick of this new age.
Women Talk Leadership on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Anna Konjetzky's Songs of Absence brings dancers – from butter Europe, olive-oil Europe, and coconut-oil Lanka – to the stage. Main hosts a FIFA quiz for those whose loyalties lie with balls rather than books.
Next Friday, Stories Spark Startups tries to do exactly that, presumably the kind of stories that end in funding rounds rather than rejection emails. Sarah Kabir screens her film on post-independence Sri Lanka at the Kobbekaduwa Institute. And for the truly committed, the Tiki Bar's immersive murder mystery at the Shangri-La promises an evening of solving a fake crime, which beats stewing over the real ones.
What to read
Sri Lankan modernist ruins at their finest, in this photostory on the Tangalle Bay Hotel. Put this week’s examination in its historical context, with B. Skanthakumar’s review of a new book on our ‘borderlands,’ Cartographies of Conflict. Vindhya Buthpitiya speaks about her new book and the politics of photography.
The World Bank’s Sri Lanka Country Partnership Framework reviews the last three years' progress (they say not great) and how their lending over the next three years will be put to work.
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